Model comparison

Ministral 8B vs Qwen1.5-7B

Qwen1.5-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 8B scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen1.5-7B leads 28.7 to 12.6.

Side by side

Ministral 8B and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
Ministral 8BQwen1.5-7B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.231.4
Released2024-10-012024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.15—
Results tracked1713

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Category by category

Coding Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230), Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding12021107

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen1.5-7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard11.1%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-7B leads

Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts11911065
DTBench45.7%—

Math Qwen1.5-7B leads

Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math11881080
MATH Level 514.9%—

Knowledge Qwen1.5-7B leads

Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert11701055
GPQA Diamond27.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
MMLU—62.6%

Multilingual Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English11651058
LMArena Chinese11931141
LMArena Russian11951006

Instruction Following Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following11611058

Long Context Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query12121090

Writing & Preference Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text11911083
LMArena Creative Writing11751035
LMArena Multi-Turn11661062

Frequently asked questions

Is Ministral 8B better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Qwen1.5-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Ministral 8B or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Qwen1.5-7B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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